Category: Decades

Vegans are cruel or without critical thought. If every human stopped eating all meat and animal products like milk and cheeses people would die of starvation. No human should die of starvation.~ Joseph Ephraim (September 26, 2018)

You’re not eating meat, you’re eating animals. Real live breathing caring animals who were abused for their whole lives and who were brutally murdered just so you can eat their flesh. Just think about that for a moment.~ Felicia Loprete (September 15, 2018)

Why do people continue to conflate compassion to veganism? To be vegan is a moral baseline. It’s choosing to be ethical and just. To choose not to contribute to something evil does not mean you are being compassionate. Compassion is going out of your way to help someone. If I were to refrain from kicking someone in the street, that does not make me compassionate.

Can we stop acting like vegans are suppose to be some kind of compassionate, non judgmental being?~ Tara Moon (June 8, 2018)

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It’s healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I’ve worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I’ll accommodate them, I’ll rummage around for something to feed them, for a “vegetarian plate,” if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.~ Anthony Bourdain (2000)

I was also vegetarian before becoming vegan, thinking I was doing right by the animals. But after my eyes were opened to the realities of dairy, eggs, honey, down and all the other ways we exploit and torture animals, and more so to the understanding that animals are not things and deserve inalienable fundamental rights, I became vegan. Being vegan is easy and is especially rewarding, knowing that I’m doing everything I can to avoid causing suffering. There’s no reason to be on the fence, just do the right thing!~ Christa Meyer (May 1, 2018)

Zoos are nothing more than animals imprisoned for society’s entertainment. Anyone who claims zoos are educational are full of that same stuff that gets shoveled out of the cages!!~ Wally Tedrick (April 15, 2018)

When one accepts the obvious truth that *all* sentient non-humans are individuals, not things, deserving of life, basic respect and justice—and that the distinctions we make between species are arbitrary and designed to put us in positions of power and domination over them which invariably leads to victimization, exploitation and injustice—the only acceptable choice is to live vegan.

Exploitation of the vulnerable is NEVER acceptable. To live vegan is to take a stand against this exploitation. To live non-vegan is to directly participate in it for personal gain. The choice is clear—it’s time to live vegan.~ Keith Berger (March 10, 2018)